Families of California salon shooting victims urge plea deal

(AP) — Families of some victims of a mass killing at a Seal Beach hair salon want prosecutors to accept a plea deal from the convicted killer, saying they're exhausted by years of legally wrangling in a case marred by prosecutorial misconduct.

[...] Dekraai's public defender, Scott Sanders, accused authorities of trying to cover up an informant program that had trained jailhouse snitches to sidle up to high-profile defendants and elicit information from them in violation of their constitutional rights.

After Sanders uncovered additional jail records that had not been mentioned by sheriff's deputies during their testimony about jailhouse informants, the judge removed the district attorney's office from the penalty phase of Dekraai's trial.